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NEW YORK — It's almost show time. When the Super Bowl kicks off on Sunday, 40-plus advertisers will be hoping to win over the more than 110 million viewers tuning in. At $4.5 million for a 30-second spot, they're all hoping to have the ad that everyone will be talking about Monday morning. Here are 10 Super Bowl ads to watch out for: BUDWEISER "LOST DOG" Brewer Anheuser-Busch's 60-second ad shows a Labrador puppy chasing after the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales that are being moved to a new stable. The tune, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," performed by Sleeping, performs in the background. The ad is the sequel to last year's "Best...

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NEW YORK — It's almost show time. When the Super Bowl kicks off on Sunday, 40-plus advertisers will be hoping to win over the more than 110 million viewers tuning in. At $4.5 million for a 30-second spot, they're all hoping to have the ad that everyone...

It has been one carefree ride the past couple of days for WFSB traffic reporter Nicole Nalepa.
She's engaged!
Nalepa announced her pending nuptials on the Eyewitness News This Morning Monday. Boyfriend and now fiance Andrew Balise popped the...

Bridgeport and United Illuminating acquired initial siting approval Thursday for their plan to construct a large solar array and fuel cell alongside the city's Seaside Park, a 2-mile-long crescent park designed by Frederick Olmsted.
The 11-acre solar...

All cities go through phases as they develop from small ports or county hubs. In the mid-1890s, Hartford went through a phase known as "the rain of parks," which fell around the city's periphery. In a span of months — August 1894 to November...

For two centuries, Hartford has been a center of commerce, industry and innovation. The city's businesspeople have led the way in everything from insurance to firearms, from bicycles to aircraft.
But many of Hartford's entrepreneurs never forgot the city...

EAST HARTFORD — The Friends of Center Cemetery was about to revamp its 20-year-old walking tour booklet when it occurred to Ray Tubbs, the group's president, that the printed word might have a foot in the grave.
People don't want printed guides...

A Naperville man has been charged in federal court in connection with an arson fire at an FAA radar center that grounded nearly 2,000 flights in Chicago today, authorities said.
Brian Howard, 36, remains hospitalized following the incident, in which he...

NEW YORK — A Fairfield woman and wife of a CBS executive who was seriously injured when she was struck by a bicyclist in Central Park last week has died, according to a statement from her husband.Jill Tarlov, a former employee of 1010 WINS radio...

The New Hartford estate of the late actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who gained fame as the star of television crime dramas beginning in the late 1950s, is on the market for $895,000.
The estate, known as "The Rafters," was the summer home of...

A Broadway musical about a Jewish shtetl, a Russian pogrom and a poor milkman who talks to God? Sounds crazy, no?
"To us it was simply the next show to do," says Sheldon Harnick, who wrote the lyrics to the show that would become the beloved...

I love interviewing independent women in show business of a certain age who speak their minds. One of my favorite interviews was in 2002 was with composer-writer Mary Rodgers from her Central Park West home. Rodgers died yesterday of heart failure at...

My feet crunched through the marsh grass as I approached the banks of Spencer Creek. In the mud below, hundreds of fiddler crabs scrambled sideways in different directions looking to hide in their holes. Nearby, a great blue heron flew off, startled by my...

"Who's your friend?" Meredith Maffett asked her brother, Bret, after seeing a picture of him with his classmates — including Seth Taylor — at Wake Forest University.
Meredith was home in West Hartford while her brother studied in North...

Few of us can follow the trail of a genius. But if that genius is Frederick Law Olmsted, father of American landscape architecture and co-designer of New York's Central Park, the possibility is literally true and near at hand. Born in Hartford in 1822, he...

NEW YORK CITY — Storybook-themed outings, particularly for young kids, abound in New York. Fans of "Eloise at the Plaza'' by Kay Thompson can book the Plaza Hotel's Eloise Suite, featuring a sparkly padded pink headboard and Eloise's name in neon...

Throughout his 40-plus-year career, actor Michael Douglas personified the modern male in film, as a sensitive youth rebelling against authority, as a middle-aged man grappling with problems of marriage, career and changing times, and as an older adult,...

One by one, the women stood up to tell their stories.
They were mothers, in one case a grandmother, to some of the 45 girls chosen from more than 300 applicants to form the premiere class of the first school for girls in Kibera, Nairobi's largest...

The author of a new paperback about the slaying of Yale University graduate student Annie Le last September concedes that her book is short on exclusive details but says it offers readers a suspenseful and intriguing story.
Stella Sands, the New...

To the extent that such events can be fixed in time, the moment Mayor Philip A. Giordano's obsession with sex jumped from back-alley gossip to pressing political business occurred at the end of a corny downtown Christmas pageant. Giordano backers, the...